He is absolutely the very best!
Senator Cruz ROCKS!
Yup, ditching the consultants and strategists is the best thing they could do.
We’re being treated to the idiotic Neel Kashkari by the dying RINO “establishment”.
Already voted for Tim Donnelly. Like Cruz in Texas, a new generation of solid Conservatives will do what they can in California.
But because of limp wristed clowns like Pete Wilson and his ilk in not doing anything about the border, its over for the so-called GOP in California.
Just one big Detroit....
He’s right. Being from Iowa and involved heavily in the political scene, I deal with these asshats and their minions all the time, especially during Presidential years. Generally clueless about winning campaigns, really good at spending a bunch of money down a hole. They don’t care, if they lose they go on to some other job. If we lose here, we have to live with it.
Amen!!! He’s right.
Yes, ditch ‘em all the way down to the state and local level. Dan Patrick, who won the runoff for Texas Lt. Gov has a crap consultant named Allen Blakemore who did Patrick no favors. Michael Berry, on his radio show, emphasized the way consultants exert malevolent influence long after the campaign is over and far into the politician’s term. Berry was sincerely worried about the injection of Blakemore into the most powerful office of Texas, which is probably similar to how Ted Cruz feels about Karl Rove and company on the national stage.
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When you empower the grass roots you avoid that problem.
RINOs will never allow that.
A local talk show host was a GOP advisor and he totally approved of Chris Christie’s actions during the campaign including him not campaigning for Cuccinelli! These advisors don’t operate like a Conservative.
Excellent point by Senator Cruz.
The democrats win presidential elections by first locking up their base, and getting them committed to the candidate and excited about the campaign. They start from the far left during the primaries, and then pretend to be more "moderate" during the general.
They republicans start from the far left, and push the most leftist candidate they can get away with. They then try to sell this candidate to their base. When the base fails to get excited about the candidate and the campaign, the GOPe apparatchiks blackmail, guilt-trip and bully the base.
During the general election, the GOP is still trying to convince the base that the candidate is really for them, when they should be completely committed to reaching out to the wider audience, with the energy and cooperation of the base. In the end, they do not get enough of the base, and enough of the wider audience. A very poor strategy IMO.
Funny thing was in the last presidential election, the GOP was trying to "punish" certain sections of the base that did not fall in line with them. That is what amounts to great GOP strategy!
